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Check out this new commercial from the Creation Museum. I thought it was pretty cool and reminded me a little of The Nightmare before Christmas at the beginning. Plus take a look at this article from David A. DeWitt, Ph.D., Director, Center for Creation Studies, Liberty University. He does a great job explaining just how different and awesome the Creation Museum is.

To download the Creation Museum commercial, right-click this link and choose “Save” or “Download linked file.”

I’m just about to finish up the motor swap on Davonne’s z24 Cavalier and I’ve actually enjoyed the work. I was expecting it to be a Saturday project but it’s taken us a little more than that. Alldata says 15 hours but I think our swap took us twice that long but I guess that’s not so bad for our first motor swap. The last bit should be completed tonight once we swap out the hydraulic clutch line and get it bled. We swapped in the same motor but this one has about 30k less miles on it and doesn’t knock so hard your afraid your about to see a piston come flying through the hood!

Btw, if you ever need hard plastic line replaced or any other hydraulic line call huntingtonhose.com and they should be able to help you out!

I found this cool picture over at summet.com and just wanted to share it. My favorite part is the Noob Sea. I’m pretty sure however it’s not large enough!

I just noticed the absence of Google however. Maybe it doesn’t qualify as a community but I still think it should be there!

A large group of people from church went to the Creation Museum on the 17th of the month. I was pretty impressed and while most of what was presented there I’d already read or heard I thought it was a great trip. I’m planning on going again in the future once they grow it a little more.

Of course the first thing you need once you get there are some restrooms which unfortunately are well past the admission lines and around a few corners. I’m not sure why it was done that way. Nearly every theme park/museum I’ve been to has them right a the front door because most likely you just got out of the car after driving several hours.

Anyways I get back to the restroom, sit down in a stall, and a couple minutes later I hear a couple people come in. I hear a little boy say, “What’s that smell!!”. I’m getting a little embarrassed when the dad say’s, “Yeah, I love that smell! It smell like cookies or ice cream.” LOL, I could bearly stop from laughing. I was really beginning to worry what kinda of cookies they’ve been eating when he says, “Thats vanilla, it makes the bathrooms smell fresh.”

So you should take a trip to the Creation Museum and enjoy the Fresh vanilla bathrooms. And make sure to catch men in white. It was my favorite part of the whole museum.

I’ve been building my own routers for a while now. Previously I’ve mainly used IPCop but recently I heard about Endian Firewall and really liked all the extra features it was boasting. So I tried it out, really liked it and started marketing it rather than IPCop to customers. I’ve built a couple of these now and they really run great. They’ve completely killed spam on the networks, stop all the secretaries and their various chat programs, have vpn capabilities, Sip quality of service, etc. Pretty much the ultimate small business/home router. The best part is they are super easy to manage. The install is nearly identical to that of IPCop, the menu has improved over IPCop, the only downside is the need for a beefier machine. From what I’ve seen you need at least a 500mhz, 256 mb memory, and a 10 gb harddrive. The one’s I’ve built are 1 Ghz, 256mb memory, and 40 gb harddrives (only because it was the smallest/cheapest I could find to use). I think the processor is plently but it probably wouldn’t hurt to have a little more memory in the future. Most of you are probably thinking thats hardly any machine at all but I’ve had IPCop running great on 100 mhz system with 64 mb of memory so in relation it is quite a difference. The mini-itx form factor is everwhere now and this Phylon 7F2WE-1G (aka jetway J7F2WE-1G)is a perfect match for a small router pc with it’s capability to handle up to 4 nics.

Endian Firewall does an excellent job and if that spare machine you have laying around can handle it, give it a try, I think you’ll be pleasently surprised at just how much better it will do that your linksys wrt54g, just convert it into an access point instead.

I had a great father’s day!! Me and lily worked on the Honda supermoto project for a couple hours. At first she was scared of it! But after sitting on it with me and pretending to ride it she was ready to get to work!! (this tactic works for for me as well!) That night we removed the motor, all the plastic, and cleaned it up some. We removed the air box, chain guards, and cleaned it some more another night.

She’s really a great little helper. She loves to organize parts and get me tools. She can differentiate between Phillips and flat head, when I need a socket she just brings me all of them one by one ;). I think thats pretty good for a two year old!

Just when we were finishing up Davonne came down to the garage and snapped a few pictures. Thanks!!!

Figured I might as well do a quick update since I got on xanga to check out davonne’s post about my birthday party. Which by the way was the best birthday ever!!! Davonne made me dinner and surprised me with a movie room setup I’ve been planning on doing for a long time. She had the furniture all aranged with food supplied and I setup the tech stuff. Lcd projector, laptop with vongo, and some 2.1 speakers. All in all a very cool movie room. She even decorated with some old movie posters from starwars and batman.

On the turbo, since the last post I’ve put in 440cc injectors and and using an smt-6 to control the fuel, but the vortech piece of crap is gone. So after a long battle with tuning it’s running rather well and with little fuel mileage decline(about 2-3 mpg). I’m running 8-9 psi of boost and love it! Have to be extra careful in rain now though. When boost kicks in 2nd gear it’ll spin the tires and get wheel hop. Pretty impressive for a car that started out with 105 whp.

I love davonne and lily!! they are the greatest!!

Car Update!

A few things have changed since these pics mainly that I got in somefittings so I’ll be using my stainless steel feed line for oil now. Not to mention that it’s done and running about 3-4 psi right now(to be upped to ~8 shortly)!!! I’ll have to get some more pictures of it finished to post up.

vacuum manifold

My very pretty jethot 2000 header and dp. (coated for freeeeeeee!!!)

I ended up welding the pan some more, plus a good cleaning up with the wire brush + angle grinder and a coat of black primer.

My impressive air compressor setup.

Thanks to Davonne for not killing me for all the time that went into this and to Jordan for about 24 hours of labor (just this project), probably months of his life have now been spent on the car.

Turned it up to about 5psi now… I think there is something wrong with my wastegate acuator though. I have it turned almost all the way in and it’s only at 5.

Anyways just ask davonne, man that made a huge difference!! I’m helping jordan out with his truck next weekend so i might turn it up somemore then. Still trying to get to 8. hope I don’t have to get a new acuator, they are about another 100, but mainly would be a huge pain to change out. (completely removing the turbo once again).